THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, August 15, 1996 TAG: 9608150335
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY SUSIE STOUGHTON AND LINDA MCNATT, STAFF WRITERS
DATELINE: SUFFOLK LENGTH: 36 lines
A handcuffed man being taken to Western Tidewater Regional Jail on a charge of escaping from custody escaped again from police Wednesday but was caught about an hour later.
Cedric Dildy, 21, of the 500 block of Ashley Ave., Suffolk, ran as Sgt. J.H. Blakeney was delivering him to the jail about 1:40 p.m. after serving the outstanding warrant at his home, Suffolk police said.
Dildy had been at large since he got out of a work-release vehicle on July 27 and fled on foot.
The sally port - a secure entrance normally used to bring prisoners into the facility - was temporarily disabled, and Dildy was being walked into the jail.
Dildy ran into nearby woods in the Elephants Fork section near the U.S. Route 58 Bypass and Virginia Route 10 interchange, and then toward the Nansemond River behind the jail, police said. He then hid in the marshy area until he was spotted by a boater and pointed out to police.
Dildy, who by that time had managed to slip one hand from the cuffs, started swimming but was cut off by the boater, police said. When he reached shore, Dildy was apprehended at 2:47 p.m. by officers J.H. Jackson, J.H. Meston and T.L. Cooper and taken back to jail.
Dildy is being held at the Western Tidewater Regional Jail with no bond on two escape charges. He previously was in jail for a conviction that involved a bomb threat to the Suffolk Municipal Building, which houses city offices and the police department.
Dildy is scheduled to appear in General District Court at 9 a.m. on Sept. 15.
KEYWORDS: ESCAPED PRISONERS WESTERN TIDEWATER REGIONAL
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